Jeffrey
M.
Goldfarb

Partner

Jeff Goldfarb is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department and a member of the Finance Practice Group. He has experience in complex debt transactions for borrowers and lenders, with a special emphasis on leveraged acquisition financings and debt restructuring. He has extensive experience representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies, public corporations, hedge funds and investment banks in connection with syndicated loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt and other debt instruments.

Jeff Goldfarb is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department and a member of the Finance Practice Group. He has experience in complex debt transactions for borrowers and lenders, with a special emphasis on leveraged acquisition financings and debt restructuring. He has extensive experience representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies, public corporations, hedge funds and investment banks in connection with syndicated loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt and other debt instruments.

Selected Significant Matters

Jeff’s recent matters include acting as counsel for:

Special Committee of the Board of Directors of WuXi PharmaTech Inc. in its $3.3 billion management-led leveraged buyout.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in its $33.75 billion acquisition financing commitment in support of its acquisition of Allergan’s Generic Pharmaceuticals business (comprising $27 billion in loans under a senior unsecured Bridge Loan Credit Facility and $6.75 billion in loans under an Equity Bridge Loan Credit Facility).

International liquids and bulk terminaling company Zenith Energy (backed by Warburg Pincus) in connection with the acquisition financing for its purchase of the Bantry Bay Terminal, an eight million barrel petroleum storage facility in West Cork, Ireland.

A group of hedge funds in connection with its successful $3.25 billion credit bid for Delphi Corporation and over $1 billion in post-emergence financing for Delphi.

Selected Professional and Business Activities

Jeff is a member of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association and a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a past member of the Advisory Board for Law360's section on Corporate Finance.

Jeff’s article (co-written with partners William Hiller and Michael Zinder) "The New Normal in Acquisition Finance Commitments" was published in Law 360 (Bankruptcy Law; Finance Law) on August 27, 2010.